Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 115: Aegon the Disobedient

Ding, ding, ding, ding.

The sound of the bronze bells of the Seven Dragon Cathedral in Midsummer Hall resounded throughout the city. This dome-shaped cathedral with seven high towers is one of the four iconic buildings in Midsummer Hall. In terms of luxury, it is second only to the Purple Summer Palace in Varese, and in terms of height, it is second only to the Grand City Hall built on a high slope. As the bells of the Seven Dragon Cathedral rang, the bronze bells of the Grand City Hall also began to emit layers of magnificent sounds.

Bishop Korren put down the bell hammer in his hand and carefully got out of the narrow bell tower. He looked at the priests he had summoned. Each priest was wearing a simple brown robe, holding a long wooden cane and a seven-pointed star badge on his chest. In addition, there were dozens of nuns in white clothes holding seven-pointed Bibles and praying silently.

"Bishop, we are all ready." A handsome young monk saw Bishop Korlon coming out of the bell tower and stepped forward to report.

"Very good, Hugo, you are my heir." Bishop Korran looked at Hugo's bald head and silver hair with satisfaction. This young man was a Volantis with Valyrian descent brought back by Longzel. He was originally a believer of the Lord of Light, but now he has successfully become a fanatic believer of his Seven Gods Theory under Korran's theory, and even changed his name to an Andal. "Your Highness has high hopes for us this time, and we must satisfy His Highness." Bishop Korran emphasized again.

Hugo nodded vigorously. In order to ensure that the plague would not spread in Summerhall, especially to prevent the dragon pox patients from entering the border princely territory by land, Diana Tarly immediately worked out a strategy with Rey after he returned to Dragon's Nest. Lord Randyll Cavolen immediately blocked the road, and the Wine Harbor also carried out the same blockade and screening. Summerhall also closed the city gates, which was rare. Evans led the apprentices to go door to door to confirm whether there were any signs of illness. Korran also began to organize priests to provide chanting services for civilians, and opened the Grand Cathedral to distribute medicines to civilians for free. Rey generously provided sufficient funds for the Grand Cathedral.

"Bishop, some brown-robed brothers have come from the north recently." Before leaving, Hugo suddenly remembered something and reported to Bishop Korlon in a low voice: "They told everyone that the Dragon King is a creature of incest, the dragons are demons from hell, and His Royal Highness the Prince and the princes are pagans and unclean devils from the East." The more Hugo talked, the angrier he got. If it weren't for the fact that priests could not use force without the joint approval of Bishop Korlon and Dragon's Nest City, he would have let those guys know what true dragon people were.

"Heretics!" Bishop Korlen was furious when he heard this. "They are heretics! Hugo, you two go first. I'll go to the City Hall. I won't allow such heretics to appear in my diocese."

Before he finished speaking, Bishop Korren ran even faster than young Hugo, which made the monks look at each other in bewilderment. However, when they learned about these remarks, they also became angry.

"Brother Hugo, let's talk to everyone." A nun stood up. "We must not allow such heretical remarks that slander His Royal Highness and the princes to appear."

Hugo thought about it and asked a few priests to search for the heretics who were talking nonsense, and the rest of the people were ready to mobilize believers to clean up the heretics while completing the task.

When the cathedral was dispatched, the bells of the town hall and the cathedral rang, and the bells distributed in every street also rang. In front of a beautiful stone brick house on Steel Street, the blacksmith Xiu Fu pulled his wife and daughter, who had just returned from the neighborhood cathedral, into the house.

"What happened?" Xiufu's wife looked at her husband in confusion. She had just returned from praying with her daughter, and the continuous ringing of bells did scare her, but she really didn't know what had happened.

Xiufu put on his coat and said seriously, "Take the children and stay at home. Recently, you must follow the advice of the scholars and boil all the water for drinking. And be careful not to let mice get into the house."

His wife couldn't help but say, "Firewood money." "The city hall gave a subsidy." Xiu Fu said. "Don't worry about the money." The woman looked at the child with some fear and nodded obediently. Xiu Fu then left the house with peace of mind and rushed to the direction of the big city hall.

As the bells gradually faded, the Silver Bloods in silver armor and purple cloaks and the City Guards in chain mail and silver cloaks began to move out. Without exception, they all wore Dornish veils and gloves to assist the residents of the entire city in carrying out further epidemic prevention work.

Just as Summer Hall and Wine Harbor began intensive epidemic prevention work.

Dragonstone.

Great Aegon finally got the big guy he had been waiting for for a long time.

The bald king lay crouching under a stone, nervously watching the gorgeous silver-grey beast enjoying the fat sheep. He did not have enough manpower, otherwise he would not want to lurk in this broken place. It would have been much easier to just seize Dragonstone Castle. Unfortunately, the only warrior around him was Marsson Weir. Without the dragon, he did not even have the bargaining chips to convince the acting lord and soldiers of Dragonstone Castle.

"Sea Smoke." The bald king silently recited the name of this gorgeous dragon in his heart. Although this was a harvest he had been looking forward to for a long time, when he saw this dragon, Aegon the Great was still a little uncomfortable. After all, this wild dragon belonged to Rhaenyra's ex-husband, Laenor Velaryon. It was still a little difficult for Aegon the Great to accept that he had to tame the dragon of his mortal enemy's ex-husband, but when he thought about how wonderful Rhaenyra's face would be when he flew in front of her, Aegon the Great could not help but get excited.

He slowly climbed out of the crevice and approached Haiyan cautiously.

The dragon sensed someone approaching, stopped chewing the mutton, and turned to look at Great Aegon.

"Sea Smoke, calm down." Great Aegon said in High Valyrian with a slight accent. Sea Smoke sniffed the air, glanced at Great Aegon, and continued to eat the mutton with his head down.

Great Aegon slowly approached the dragon, moved step by step to Haiyan's side, and reached out to try to grab the hanging straps of the dragon saddle.

Sea Smoke immediately turned around and roared at Great Aegon. "Sea Smoke, calm down, I command you to calm down." Great Aegon roared in High Valyrian. He reached out to Sea Smoke's dragon head with one hand and grabbed the straps of the dragon saddle with the other.

Haiyan was enraged by Great Aegon's actions. The dragon flapped its wings violently, moved its body, and directly blew Great Aegon away.

"How is it possible?" Great Aegon endured the pain and looked at the flying Sea Smoke in disbelief. "I am a pure Targaryen, how could Sea Smoke not accept me?"

The silver-gray dragon angrily spewed out dragon flames in the direction where Great Aegon was blown away. It still felt unsatisfied after spewing, and was about to spew out a second time.

A hoarse dragon roar came from the east, and Korakxiu screamed out from the clouds, twisting his body and flying towards where Haiyan was.

Haiyan roared unwillingly, then flapped its wings and flew towards Longshan. Korakxiu flew around the place where Haiyan left for a few times before slowly folding its wings and landing in front of a charred mass.

"Cough." Great Aegon coughed. Until the moment he was burned by dragon flames, he could not understand why Haiyan would reject him. Although there were many family members in the Targaryen family who failed to tame dragons and died in the dragon's mouth in history, Great Aegon never thought that that person would be himself.

The dragon flames of Seasmoke hit Aegon's legs, almost burning them to charcoal, and his body was also burned in many places. Ser Marsson Waters jumped up from his hiding place and stood between Aegon and Korakhu. Larris Strong also limped out with a sigh.

"You win." The moment Great Aegon saw his uncle appear, he knew he had failed.

"Aegon." Looking at his nephew who was burned and twisted, Daemon couldn't help but sigh for his dead brother. "Do you regret it?"

“Cough, hiss.” Da Yigeng pulled his body and found that he could not move. The pain was piercing. He gave up struggling and tears rolled down his cheeks like money. “I regret it. I regret it so much.”

"Aemond and Vhagar are dead," Daemon said. "Longzir rode on Vermithor and killed them one by one. For a crown, you lost your brothers."

"Uncle." Great Aegon gritted his teeth to endure the pain: "Where are Helena and the children?"

Daemon shook his head. "I haven't received any intelligence about Oldtown yet, but I guess the army has already captured Oldtown. However, neither Longzel nor Valar are cruel people, so Helena and the others should be able to survive."

"That's good, that's good." Great Aegon finally cried out. "Uncle, please let me die, it hurts so much."

Daemon looked at the White Knight and the Chief of Intelligence, Larris Strong, and sighed. "My prince, I will die with my king, but you must hurry back to King's Landing as soon as possible. If nothing unexpected happens, our arrangements should have already begun." Larris smiled and stood beside Great Aegon.

The White Knight stopped the king. Daemon frowned, knowing that what Laris said must not be a good thing, and something must have gone wrong in King's Landing.

"Goodbye, my nephew." Damon regained his composure, and Korakshuu spewed out a long breath of dragon flame, instantly submerging the three people.

The sixth king of the Targaryen dynasty, Aegon the Disobedient, died in the flames of his uncle's dragon four months after his coronation. The time he and Queen Rhaenyra ruled together is known as the "Year of the Two Kings".

Although later Targaryen monarchs did not regard him as a true king, people always included him in the king list when compiling history to indicate his status in the war for the crown.

Daemon watched his nephew's body crumble into a pool of ash in the flames. He immediately ordered Korakshuu to take off and return to King's Landing. Larris's warning must have made sense. It was not until he flew over the sea near King's Landing that Daemon finally determined what the problem was.

He could even clearly see the flames of King Landing in the sky.

Something must have happened in King's Landing.

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